What's the Problem?

Environmentalists recently
pressured their government to eject the San from their only dedicated
land in Botswana, a 32,000 square mile reserve specifically created
for them in 1961 by the British leading up to Botswana's independence
in 1966.

Worse, they have lost their
land outside the reserves to environmentally destructive cattle.
This is encouraged by the World Bank but especially by the European
Community (EC) thru their 'sweetheart' beef contract with Botswana.
Texas sized Botswana is 80% desert unfit for domestic cattle. Yet
it has one of the highest ratios of cattle per capita in the world.
The recently arrived Tswana who now rule the country are historically
cattle herders. Bride prices in Botswana are in head of cattle,
not the local currency. Unfortunately it is a few high government
officials who line their pockets from the beef subsidies.

San Find Life Sustaning Tasana Melons
Only Far Removed From Destructive Cattle.

But
then comes the final 'nail-to-the-coffin'. To protect the beef they
don't need (Europe exports a surplus of beef) from the possibility
of importing to Europe the wild game's hoof-and-mouth disease, the
EC insists on the installation of hundreds of kilometers of cordon
fences that kill tens of thousands of migrating animals, especially
when driven by the all too frequent Kalahari droughts.

Botswana's wildebeast (Gnu)
population is estimated to have declined from 500,000 to 3,000 in
recent years due to the cardon fences. Greenpeace has labeled all
this 'Financing Ecological Destruction'. If there is not a drastic
change, the world faces a dust bowl Kalahari, strewn with the bleaching
bones of the recently introduced cattle, the displaced wild game
that survived there for eons, and the San themselves, mankind's
oldest living legacy.

The Clans 'Supermarket' Is The Wide
Open Bush.

Please note that SAVESAN's thrust is in Botswana where the problem
is most acute. The scope of SAVESAN's 'action' does however include
Namibian and all other San.

ECOTERRA
International is a worldwide organisation supporting Indigenous Peoples.
It stands for their right to decide their own future and helps them
protect their lives, lands and human rights. ECOTERRA is a not-for-profit
organisation, founded in 1968, which receives no funds from any national
government.

also visit http://www.indigenousheritage.org/
where they are working to raise funds to lease or purchase ancestral
lands in southern Africa, where communities of San can redefine
their traditional way of life.